It's not like people who carry out a coup say "We are now seizing power illegitimately". They say "We are stopping the big steal", "we are counting all the legal votes", "we are protecting / restoring the constitution" or such shit.
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Interesting. I suppose eighteenth century revolutionaries mobilized symbols from the past to utopian ends too. (Including, ironically a Senate, a Capitol and the fasces...)
One of those really vivid examples of how we construct the future out of our understandings - however accurate or warped - of the past.
